The Alice Cooper Thread

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Love the cover. Scary! Reminds me of the Constrictor days.

[Inspector Abberline]

from Go Robot by Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Sometimes I feel like I'm a sentimental trooper
She cried so hard, you know she looked like Alice Cooper

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Inspector Abberline

from Go Robot by Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Is it a good album Inspector? I've only heard a couple off it. Is it chilled ala Californication or the funk rock of old?

[Inspector Abberline]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Is it a good album Inspector? I've only heard a couple off it. Is it chilled ala Californication or the funk rock of old?

definitely more like Californication,I've played it a lot I really like it, I think its one of the best things they have done, But I prefer their newer stuff.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Inspector Abberline

definitely more like Californication,I've played it a lot I really like it, I think its one of the best things they have done, But I prefer their newer stuff.

So do i. Although Under the Bridge is my fave song by them (Hmm! top 10 impending methinks) but then that was more like their newer stuff than it was the rest of BloodSugarSexMagic.

[Susan Foreman]

Originally Posted by Inspector Abberline

from Go Robot by Red Hot Chili Peppers.

"Sometimes I feel like I'm a sentimental trooper
She cried so hard, you know she looked like Alice Cooper"

There are a number of songs that either mention or are about Alice. These include (but are not limited to):

• EXTREME - On the album 'Pornographitti', there is a song called 'When I'm President. It is a rock song with rapped lyrics. After the guitar solo, there is an interchange between the singer and the guitarist
  
  Singer: "Go ask Alice."
  Guitarist: "What did he say?"
  Singer: "Remember, I want to be elected."

• THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS - The album 'John Henry' contains a song called 'Why Must I be Sad', which is sung from the perspective of a kid who hears all of his unspoken sadness given voice in the music of Alice Cooper. There are a lot of song titles in it:
  
  No More Mr. Nice Guy
  I Love The Dead
  I've Been thinking about it
  Now I understand what he said
  Ask Me now
  I understand the words that Alice said
  I kick the rocks beneath me
  I squint at the sunset sad sad sad
  Why must I be sad?
  The rows of dandelions growing all around me
  Why must I be sad?
  
  No one knows these things but me and him
  so I'm writing everything down in a spiral notebook
  in the hopes that one day
  other people will feel as low as this
  Welcome to my Nightmare
  Dead Babies
  Raped and Freezin'
  You Drive Me Nervous
  Elected
  Generation Landslide
  Under My Wheels
  Muscle of Love
  School's Out
  Only Women Bleed
  Billion Dollar Babies

• DANGEROUS TOYS - 'Scared'. The album, 'Dangerous Toys', actually carries the credit "...dedicated to Alice Cooper". The references are very subtle, and maybe you need to be a fan to actually get them!
  
  Who is the man in the white vest?
  I'm getting nervous, becoming a mess
  Is he the doctor's man to take me away?
  Or the same damn demon from yesterday?
  Waking up is virtually impossible
  Something in this story won't let me go
  You know I'm shaking and I'm feeling sick
  Guess I'm gonna need a vodka quick
  Momma's lace and whiskey on the top shelf
  Somehow they got caught up in my dream
  Monsters on my right and cobwebs on my left
  Scary man standin' right in front of me
  Hey man, I think I like being scared
  An' I wish you all were there Tomorrow, if I get my strength
  I'll put my daddy's gun to use
  I hate it, I hate it feels like I'm drowning
  The man's tied me up and I think he's frowning
  Black widow is his favorite bite
  Why does the creature cling so tight
  Makes her crawl on my face and neck
  God, the man drives me a nervous wreck
  Why am I starting to like this?
  You know he hasn't hurt me yet
  But it's different now, just a whim
  Maybe I'm becoming his pet
  Hey man, I think I like being scared
  An' I wish you all were there
  Man I really, really think, really think that I think
  I like being scared

Other things to mention include:

• The Scorpions - 'Speedy's Coming'
  "Do you like Alice Cooper, do you like Ringo Star"

• Wednesday 13 - 'Something This Way Comes'
  "Alice Cooper and G.I Joe, taught me everything I need to know
  And when I hear 'HEY-HO', I scream 'LET'S GO', Baby.
  There's something wicked, there's something wicked"

• Rob Zombie - 'Get Your Boots On! That's The End Of Rock And Roll'
  "Well, Frank said to Alice
  "Don't tell anybody that you didn't kill the chicken"
  Let the illusion in Toronto survive
  And live beyond what is always written"

• Dr Hook - 'Everybody's Making It Big But Me' features the lines
  "Well I hear that Alice Cooper's got a foxy chick
  To wipe off his snake, and keep him rich"

• The Royal Court Of China - 'Geared & Primed'
  "I had a vision, I was Alice Cooper"

• THE WHO - Put The Money Down
  "Before I walk on the water,
  Put the money down, down, down,
  There are bands killing chickens,
  My hero's getting pushed around, 'round, 'round"

• Udo Jürgens song 'Er oder sie' (sang in German):
  
  'Jeder Mensch ist er oder sie
  Doch bei manchen weiß man das nie
  Draus wird oft ein Star
  Alice Cooper, David Bowie
  Sind die zwei nun er oder sie
  Das ist keinem klar.'
  
  which roughly translates to
  
  'Every human being is a he or a she
  but with some you never know
  those often become stars.
  Alice Cooper, David Bowie
  are these two a he or a she?
  No one knows.'

[Inspector Abberline]

Well for one thing I do not think he is a registered Dr of medicine, secondly who would want a Dr with a hook,apart from Abu Hamza that is.This lyric sounds like the good Dr is having a dig at old Alice to me. Perhaps if he spent more time studying and less time writing songs he would of qualified by now,i shall be writing to the BMA to complain.

Dr Hook - 'Everybody's Making It Big But Me' features the lines
"Well I hear that Alice Cooper's got a foxy chick
To wipe off his snake, and keep him rich"

[Susan Foreman]

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

• Dr Hook - 'Everybody's Making It Big But Me' features the lines
  "Well I hear that Alice Cooper's got a foxy chick
  To wipe off his snake, and keep him rich"

Originally Posted by Inspector Abberline

Well for one thing I do not think he is a registered Dr of medicine, secondly who would want a Dr with a hook,apart from Abu Hamza that is.This lyric sounds like the good Dr is having a dig at old Alice to me. Perhaps if he spent more time studying and less time writing songs he would of qualified by now,i shall be writing to the BMA to complain.

You are so wide of the mark, it's lucky I didn't suggest that the Elton John song 'All The Girls Love Alice'* was about Ms. Cooper - God knows what you would have made of that!!!

* 'All The Girls Love Alice' is nothing to do with Alice Cooper. Instead, it's exactly what is suggested by the title - a lesbian love song

[Susan Foreman]

From the Nights With Alice Cooper FB Page:

"TWO days until the debut of "Paranoiac Personality" on Nights with Alice Cooper! So, as a little tease, we're gonna give you the first words to Alice's brand-new song! Here's how the lyrics begin.... can you guess what's next?!

"... everybody's got something hiding....""

[Susan Foreman]

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

"... everybody's got something hiding....""

"in the back of their mind... Everybody's got something up their sleeve... yeah. Everybody's got tangled wires... "